The Government awarded Juan Mari Arzak the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. What is his work?
Sources: 1 link, read on 22 October 2026.
La Moncloa: entrega de las Medallas de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (2009), read on 22 October 2026.
Answer: Restaurateur and creator of new cuisine. La Moncloa presents him as a restaurateur from San Sebastián who, with traditional Basque cuisine as a base, wanted to create a new Spanish cuisine of worldwide renown.
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Task 4 · Culture and history Related to question 4017 of the manual
The question in Spanish
El Gobierno concedió a Juan Mari Arzak la Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. ¿A qué se dedica?
The options
- ARestaurateur and creator of new cuisineRestaurador y creador de nueva cocinaCorrect
- BPortrait painterPintor de retratos
- COpera composerCompositor de ópera
What the source says
«Con la cocina vasca tradicional como base y con la influencia de grandes maestros como Paul Bocusse, hizo suyo el reto de crear una nueva cocina española que atravesase las fronteras y adquiriese renombre mundial.»
Source: La Moncloa: entrega de las Medallas de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (2009), read on 22 October 2026. The quotation is in Spanish, as the source prints it; the English wording of the answer is ours.
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